Asa Cooper Stickland

Chain-of-Thought Monitoring Can Be Unreliable in Implicit-Influence Settings

Chain-of-thought (CoT) monitoring is increasingly treated as an important safety layer for frontier reasoning models. Most monitorability evaluations study explicit-influence settings: setups where the prompt directly incentivizes the model to hide something, e.g., by instructing it to perform a hidden side-task. A com...